How to be confident
How do you gain confidence? From time to time, I answer readers’ questions in my blog. Today’s question comes from Australian author Anne Howell, whose memoir All That I Forgot came out last year. It’s…
Woody Allen on showing up
This is a great extract from a Woody Allen interview and it sums up for me the importance of what I call the Mental Game. That talent or – despite the X Factor – wanting to be successful…
The festival’s over – how do you hold onto the screenwriting energy?
Festivals and workshops are great, they get you out of the house and you get high on a great buzz of screenwriting energy. But it’s only too easy for that energy to fade away once…
Fire Up Your Writing Career
Here’s a psychological tool to help with focusing your writer’s mind – dealing with issues such as procrastination and self-sabotage, and staying creative.
Are we there yet?
There must be something in the air: I’m in the mood for finishing things. I just finished writing a novel after a mammoth three years – and just finished the latest Euroscript Screen-PLAY Summer School…
Losing faith in your work?
Losing faith in your work happens to the best writers – and it can be lethal. The story starts to feel flat. The emotions false. The scenes mechanical. Soon you wonder what you even saw…
Stuck? A simple way to get your work moving.
Here’s a deceptively simple method for literally getting your work to move forwards – but don’t be fooled. Like many simple ideas it can be profoundly useful. It works for all kinds of screenwriting, and…
Writing successfully in a recession
I’m thinking a good deal about creativity at the moment, as I prepare for the launch of my next novel. In particular I’m aware that these are difficult times to let yourself go and be…
Modelling for Writers (not like Naomi Campbell)
Few books on writing ever deal with the mental game of writing, but getting your mental game right is crucial. Today’s post gives you one of the most powerful and far-reaching tools I’ve discovered for…
A tip to help you with the mental game of creative success
The more I write, and the more I work with writers, the more I am sure it’s the same. You need to work on your skills, and equally you need to work on your mental…